We study the aggregate labor force participation behavior of women over a 25-year period in Turkey using a synthetic … interruptions in rural areas and for low-educated women in urban areas. We also find that younger cohorts among the least …-educated women are more likely to participate, contrary to the belief that culture stands in the way. This implies that the recent …

This article analyzes married women's labor supply responses to their husbands' job loss (added worker effect) and … worsening of unemployment conditions (discouraged worker effect). We find that married women whose husbands are unemployed or … underemployed are more likely to participate in the labor force and work more hours using yearly cross-sectional data from Turkey …

distinct Muslim denominations in Turkey: Sunni and Alevi Muslims. We find a positive and significant effect of being an Alevi … more gender equal views regarding the role of women in the labor market and argue that differences in gender views drive …

Modern women often face an uneasy choice: dedicating their time to reproductive household work, or joining the …-trivial costs, and necessarily involve some trade-offs, influencing the general feeling of happiness women experience given their … decision. The trade-offs are especially pronounced in traditional developing countries, where both the pressure for women to …

women from working overtime exceeding two hours a day; six hours a week; and 150 hours a year. The 1985 amendments exempted … a variety of occupations and industries from such overtime restriction on women. We first define "jobs" using an … exempt from the overtime restriction on women by the 1985 amendments. Applying a difference-in-difference model to census …

behavior of married women in six European countries (Netherlands, France, Spain, Italy, Germany and United Kingdom) using … that cross-country differences in the employment rate and the persistence of employment transitions of married women are …

With only 32% of active age women in the labor market, Guatemala is an upper middle-income country with one of the … was partly explained by the drastic increases in the school attainment of women, the reduction in fertility and the … show that social norms, attitudes towards women in the society and public policies are important determinants of these …

This study investigates the factors that underlay the low labour force participation rate among Palestinian-Arab women … in Israel relative to Jewish women despite the high educational attainment among this group. We focus on four factors … retirement of Arab women from the labour market. We find that all four of these factors affect the probability of Palestinian …